The Velvet Kiss

Chapter 1- First day

New school, new friends, mean teachers.

"Wake up Nathaniel! NOW!"

You could use some beauty sleep you ugly piece of-

"NOW!!!"

"Yes mother! Give me a sec."

I didn't want to but you know some moms are just, let's not go there.
You probably know my name. Nathaniel, or Nate for short. It's my first day in a new school and I had a reputation. A bad one. Maybe I can turn that around here.

I get up out of bed for the first time in 10 hours, Yes, I get 10 hours of sleep, and ironically put on a green shirt with blue jeans and I decide to wear my new aqua blue hoodie. I brush my teeth and head downstairs and to my not surprise my mom was there, impatient as always.

"You need to eat still and head to school you don't want to be late now."

"No, ma'am I don't that would ruin my reputation."

I put on my shoes and head to the kitchen to pour cereal and milk and then I thought why not get some orange juice to drink. BAD IDEA. I took a sip and just poured it in the sink. Why does toothpaste do that to me. After I eat, I sling my red and black book-bag over my shoulder and head to school. Honestly, we couldn't have moved any closer to the school. I just took a few steps and was there. We couldn't have got here any later either, couldn't we.

I sigh and walk to period 1,math. Why math? Of all subjects, math. Oh well. I find the class and walk in, half nervous, half happy. I sat down in the only empty seat. Next to a girl and the wall. The teacher, Mrs. Lelex (lee-lecks) just HAD to welcome me. The girl next to me sighed. The rest didn't seem that eccentric either. I have a little social anxiety so I was a bit cautious.

For gym, I didn't have to do any thing except sit on the bench and watch. They don't have signs on the changing rooms so I just guessed the one on the left was boys and the one on the right is girls. I didn't really see who entered where so I had to guess. They played a group game of Dodge ball. I was mad that I had to sit out. I wasn't the only one though. there was a kid on the other side of the bench. he had curly red hair, freckles on his left cheek, and didn't look athletic either. This was my chance to make friends. I say friends like that because people like to betray me.

 "Why are you sitting on the bench?"

 "Huh, oh. You're the new kid aren't you?"

 "Yeah. The name's Nathaniel, Nate for short. What's yours?" 

 "Uh... Its Greg."

 "Can you tell me why your benched?"

 "I'm the worst player in the school, two ways."

 "Oh, well I never saw whatcha got."

 "You might never see 'What I got' because it's probably useless."

"Nonsense, to the school your probably bad but to me... we can play a game after school so I can see."

 "Okay, but I'll have to ask first"

 "So, we friends?"

 "Uh, sure I guess."

 I made my first friend in school. It won't be the last.

 We went to the next class which was Art. I was put next to Greg. I was instantly put in his group AND I got to start the new project so I could get a new grade. I could tell Greg didn't have many friends, so I offered to be one of his. The project was to create your own form of the Monolisa. Of course nothing can match the original so we put our own face that we drew on it. I wasn't much of an artist. Greg wasn't either. Our project didn't look half bad. Didn't look good but it wasn't bad. It got an A- in creativity and a B+ in overall group participation. It was only Greg and I in the group. Since Greg wasn't so popular, he probably was the laughing stock at the school and anyone seen with him was, too.

I was walking home. Alone. I didn't want to be seen with Greg. He didn't care enough to ask me. So I didn't. I walked for about a minute because we live right next to the school. My mom said that if any friends were walking with me, I could take them home and walk around as long as I got home by 4:30. I walked around the block while listening to my favorite song, Remember the Name by Fort Minor. I kept walking until the song was over. To my surprise, I saw that one girl's house. Her name was Jennifer. I didn't say anything because I was too embarrassed. Knowing she lived on the same block meant if we become friends, I can go to her house without her telling me. I turned around and headed to my house. I walked in and went to my room to play Call of Duty Black Ops 3 while I thought about the next day of school...

A/N Whew my first romance book and it is already looking great. The new word amount is 800-950 words per chapter. The characters names came off the top of my head (except Greg thanks to lilkoolkid. If you have the same name as one of the characters, that's good and you can think that you are in their shoes. Well that's it for this A/N thank you and see you in the next chapter or my other books.

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